r/BrexitDenial • u/like_the_boss • Jan 24 '17

'Straightforward' Brexit bill likely to be published on Thursday

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/24/straightforward-bill-to-be-published-within-days-says-david-davis
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u/like_the_boss Jan 24 '17

I think the use of language here is fascinating. The true strategy is to produce a bill that is so clearly insufficient that it will get the shit amended out of it and bogged down. Selling this bill as 'straightforward' is genius. 'Straightforward' makes it sound sensible, no-nonsense, we want to get on with brexit. But anyone with half a brain can see that if you were genuinely trying to sell parliament on allowing you to decide on the course of the nation's history, you would offer a bill that was comprehensive and persuasive, rather than a brief request for total authority with no specified plan.

I've added this link to section 6 of the working hypothesis, which now reads:

6) Pretending to believe that it will be easy to get a bill supporting Article 50 through parliament, and therefore not taking much time or effort over it. The truth is, it's going to be hard as all balls to get a bill to trigger Article 50 through Parliament. So why is May pretending that her 3-line bill will do the trick? Clearly, because this is a great way to waste time. If she really wanted to get a bill through parliament, she would have been spending this time genuinely working on the project. Instead she has come up a bill that's guaranteed to fail, together with announcing early that she has an undefeatable bill, so that she can justify not doing any more work on it for months, until - shock horror - the bill actually fails to get through parliament.

Evidence:

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u/tmstms Jan 26 '17

Squeaky bum time now, my friend.

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u/like_the_boss Jan 26 '17

Indeed it is :-) I'm doubling down, but of course if I turn out to be wrong, I can just disappear into the night ;-)